Arkansas Council Seeks Resegregation in Army

Arkansas Council Seeks
Re-Segregation in Army
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The
Arkansas Citizens Council has
passes a resolution urging the
Army to "return to segregation" in
order to attract more white enlist-
ments. Col. John Norman Warnock
of Camden, legal counsel for the
organization, said about 25 mem-
bers from 14 chapters across the
state met in Little Rock to approve
the resolution. It states that more
whites should be encouraged to
join because the Army "has failed
to reach its recruiting goals and
that 35 percent of those who sign
up are black." If the rate at which
whites are leaving and blacks are
joining the Army remains stable,
"this could lead to a change of
color of the Army to an all-black
military force," the resolution
stated. The group called for a re-
turn to segregation in order to at-
tract white enlistees who would
serve under white sergeants and
white officers.
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Arkansas Council Seeks
Re-Segregation in Army
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The
Arkansas Citizens Council has
passes a resolution urging the
Army to "return to segregation" in
order to attract more white enlist-
ments. Col. John Norman Warnock
of Camden, legal counsel for the
organization, said about 25 mem-
bers from 14 chapters across the
state met in Little Rock to approve
the resolution. It states that more
whites should be encouraged to
join because the Army "has failed
to reach its recruiting goals and
that 35 percent of those who sign
up are black." If the rate at which
whites are leaving and blacks are
joining the Army remains stable,
"this could lead to a change of
color of the Army to an all-black
military force," the resolution
stated. The group called for a re-
turn to segregation in order to at-
tract white enlistees who would
serve under white sergeants and
white officers.
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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas